From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 15 7:57:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B549C37B593; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 07:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE) Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id QAA21113; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:56:39 +0200 (MES) Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id QAA12310; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:56:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id QAA08850; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:56:39 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:56:39 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f To: Jonathan Smith Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults References: From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: Jonathan Smith's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:10:00 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 25 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jonathan Smith wrote: > The reason against it is that it makes it harder to go through and > configure a fresh system. As I had said, one of my favorite things > was to have one file to go through and change what I needed to. There are two approaches: (1) Copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, edit /etc/rc.conf and delete all unchanged lines from it. (Here, the extra step is to delete the unchanged lines. If most lines are unchanged, the second approach might be better.) (2) Open two windows, one looking at the /etc/defaults/rc.conf and a text editor looking at an empty /etc/rc.conf. Copy and paste all lines from /etc/defaults/rc.conf into /etc/rc.conf and change as appropriate. Of course, the first time you do this it is more work. But considering that you can just keep /etc/rc.conf and don't have to merge in the changes, this work is saved the next time you update. kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message